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[Brian Schott <bfschott@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 11, 2011, at 2:41 PM, Jay Pipes wrote:

> No. The -t flag is part of the eucatools CLI program, that's all I was
> saying. The instanceType xs:string element is what's part of the EC2
> API.

Correct, but eucatools allows arbitrary strings.

> Sure. Here's the code from the file referenced above:
> 
>    def run_instances(self, context, **kwargs):
>        max_count = int(kwargs.get('max_count', 1))
>        instances = self.compute_api.create(context,
>            instance_type=instance_types.get_by_type(
>                kwargs.get('instance_type', None)),
> <snip>
> 
> The XML from the client request has already been deserialized and the
> **kwargs contains the fields that were in the XML request to the API
> controller, right?
> 
> The code:
> 
> instance_types.get_by_type(kwargs.get('instance_type', None))
> 
> would blow up with the suggested "let's just tack everything on to the
> -t flag" solution.
> 

I'm not a great python coder, but in instance_types.get_by_type(), I'd parse the entire string, and create a dictionary object with the base fields memory_mb..., plus any additional fields "cpu_arch" that got passed in.

run-instances -t "m1.small;near_volume='v1234'" ...
get_by_type("m1.small;near_volume='v1234'")
returns:
dict(memory_mb=2048, vcpus=1, local_gb=20, flavorid=2, near_volume='v1234')

> Please read more of the emails in this thread. We're discussing not
> just imageType, but:
> 
> * Allowing a client request to contain arbitrary attributes that can
> be passed to schedulers and other workers to help them do their work
> more intelligently; specifically, request attributes that allow a
> scheduler to place an instance or volume "near" something in a zone.
> * Not JUST the EC2 API, but the OpenStack API, too. We need a solution for both.

It looks like the same fields could be pulled from <metadata> easily enough and result in the same object getting passed around, but that's outside my experience.

<server xmlns="http://docs.openstack.org/compute/api/v1.1";
name="new-server-test" flavorId="1"
imageRef="https://servers.api.rackspacecloud.com/ v1.1/32278/images/1">
<metadata> 
<meta key="near_volume">v1234</meta>
<meta key="My Server Name">Apache1</meta>
</metadata> 
<personality>
...
</server>